VOUnits 1.0 RFCThis is the RFC centre for the IVOA VOUnits 1.0 Proposed Recommendation.
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The VOUnits document is intended to describe existing and recommended practice for writing units specifications in IVOA protocols:
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> > | Note on implementations: This document does not define a protocol, but summarises existing practice, and recommends good practice for future IVOA specification. In consequence, the existing software which parses units specifications (summarised in the document) can be regarded as 'implementations' of the document. In addition, the Unity library, which was written in part to validate some of the document's conclusions, can be regarded as an implementation of the standard. | |||||||
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> > | Norman Gray received some direct comments from Tim Jenness and Markus Demleitner. These were in part typo-level comments, but included some more significant points about the substance of the document. Many thanks to both. | |||||||
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Comments from TCG (WG and IG chairs)TCG Chair & Vice Chair (Séverin Gaudet and Matthew Graham)Applications (Mark Taylor and Pierre Fernique)Data Access Layer (Patrick Dowler and Mike Fitzpatrick)Data Model (Jesus Salgado and Omar Laurino)Grid&Web Sevices (Andreas Wicenec and André Schaaff)Registry (Gretchen Greene and Pierre Le Sidaner) | ||||||||
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VOEvent (Matthew Graham and John Swinbank) | ||||||||
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Data Curation & Preservation IG (Alberto Accomazzi)Knowledge Discovery in Databases IG (Giuseppe Longo)Theory IG (Franck Le Petit and Rick Wagner) | ||||||||
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